Mount & Blade: Wind of War

Any city must have a city and a village nearby, otherwise, it is difficult for a city to be self-sufficient.

It is autumn, the harvest season.

In addition, the City of Sin is seriously short of food, so although the correct policy of clearing the fields has been adopted, it has not been implemented to the end.

After all, from the map, the army of Lonely Mountain Castle is still far away from Constart.

The army of Lonely Mountain Castle wants to wait until the City of Sin and the Silver Frost City coalition are both defeated before taking action.

This is almost a "fact" that even the lower-level soldiers are gradually realizing.

Therefore, the thief soldiers patrolling near the village seem lazy. They also know that their task is not so much defense as to urge and whip the serfs to collect the food quickly and then transport it to the city.

"Hey, do you think the boss can win?" A thief soldier asked. They are idle anyway, so they just chat casually.

"No matter if he can win or not, if he wins, we'll take advantage of him. If he loses, we'll flee together. The wilderness is so big, as long as we carry a knife, we can't get a meal anywhere?"

"Haha, you're right, let's drink!"

Just when the two thieves reached a consensus that it was fine to have wine and meat today and not worry about how tomorrow would go, there were sudden vibrations on the ground.

Boom, boom, boom...

"What is this?"

"Cavalry charge!? How is it possible? How could there be a large group of cavalry here?"

A thief soldier climbed up the haystack and looked from a distance, but he saw a group of people and horses in black armor rushing in from a distance. He jumped off the haystack and wanted to report to his superiors, but was grabbed by his companions behind him.

"What are you doing?"

"Report to the captain, enemy attack?!"

"Are you stupid? That guy would have run away by now. If you don't want to die, come in. That's the dark cavalry of the Lonely Mountain Castle. Even though there are not many people, the few soldiers stationed in this village are not enough to kill in one round of charge."

In fact, as the thief soldier expected, most of the thief soldiers fled, and the few who stood up to meet the enemy were almost crushed to pieces in the charge of the dark armored cavalry.

Whether it is level, morale, or equipment, there is a huge gap in any aspect, which eventually formed a gap in combat power like a natural moat.

Fatis, who led the army to advance steadily all the way, found through scouts that the policy of clearing the countryside in the City of Sin was not carried out thoroughly. After several considerations, he finally decided to abandon the large army and lead the dark armored cavalry to attack quickly, and Raymond took over and led the army to catch up quickly.

Slow first, then fast, slow first, then fast.

This extremely deceptive tactical performance caught the City of Sin off guard. Fatis, who was in a light cavalry assault, led the top elite of Lonely Mountain Castle: the Dark Black Armor Cavalry, and captured three towns and seven villages in a row. The speed was so fast that even the scouts of the City of Sin could not send letters as fast as them.

After all, the Dark Black Armor Cavalry had two horses per person, and Rhodes almost spent all the two hundred horses that the Green Language Elves offered to him on this cavalry.

In addition to the low morale and combat effectiveness of the thieves and soldiers of the Black Evil City, what surprised Fatis was the degree of cooperation of the liberated serfs.

These serfs had been violently oppressed by the thieves for a long time, but they had been suppressed by cruel violence and could not vent their resentment. When Fatis led the Dark Black Armor Cavalry to arrive, they were almost welcomed by these people with food and drink.

On the one hand, this was dissatisfaction with the rule of the City of Sin, and on the other hand, it was because of the excellent reputation of the Lonely Mountain Castle.

On one side is the Dark City, and on the other side is the Glorious City. These serfs had no chance to choose before, but now they can choose, and they all want to be good people.

Therefore, as long as Fatis leads his troops to defeat the local garrison soldiers, he does not need to waste time to maintain his rule. He only needs to explain to the leaders of the local serfs that the follow-up army of the Glorious City will arrive soon, and he will get a cheer and prostration.

In this situation, Fatis led the cavalry to charge forward, and Raymond led the army to take over the villages and towns in the back.

At this time, Konstart was still leading the main force to tentatively fight with the main force of the coalition forces of Silver Frost City. When he received the battle report, he found that the Lonely Mountain Castle army, which was slow at first, fast at last, and finally rushed, had stabbed him in the heart and was about to be at the gates of the city.

Occupying a large number of villages and towns in the autumn harvest state, even if part of the food was distributed to the villagers and townspeople, the remaining food greatly supplemented the logistics of the Lonely Mountain Castle army.

Now, Fatis has more spare energy to fight the City of Sin steadily, but no one will believe that he is doing so.

Lonely Mountain Castle, inside the City Lord's Mansion.

A beautiful blonde elf wearing a silk robe and a leather glove on one hand greeted a huge falcon landing in the night breeze.

This is the secret treasure of the Qingyu elves: the golden eagle. Of course, this kind of falcon has golden eyes, is smart and fierce, and has excellent eyesight. It is not really pure gold. This creature is a treasure used by the Qingyu elves for communication and surveillance.

Because of the improvement of the relationship between the Lonely Mountain Castle and the Qingyu elf tribe, an elf female official working in the City Lord's Mansion has obtained the right to raise a golden eagle.

At this moment, she took off the letter tied to the falcon's leg, fed the golden eagle a few pieces of fresh meat, and let it go down to rest.

City Lord's Mansion, Rhodes' private office.

"Sir, the latest battle report from the front." The beautiful female elf handed the letter to Rhodes, then bowed and left.

At this time, in the office, in addition to Rhodes, there was a one-armed man standing beside him. He was Valen, the sheriff of Lonely Mountain Castle.

"Valen, your subordinates sent back the battle report from the front! Fatis led the dark cavalry and captured three towns and seven villages in a row. It was really lightning-fast!"

"Sorry, sir, you spent so much time and effort training these people before, but in the end, you could only pass back some useless information like this."

Hearing Rhodes' praise, Valen's face did not show any joy or excitement. Instead, he apologized solemnly, and his attitude was from the heart.

It turned out that as early as the early days of Rhodes' capture of Lonely Mountain Castle, he had secretly trained a group of wilderness mountain people.

The career advancement route of wilderness mountain people: human miner, human elite miner, human thug, alien spy.

Although this career promotion system looks weak, there are no garbage soldiers. Even the weakest soldiers have their place.

Although most of the wilderness folks were trained by Rhodes using the training manual to become highly cost-effective Rhodok crossbowmen, there were still a few folks for whom Rhodes deliberately retained their original career advancement routes.

After training them personally, he handed them over to Valen for management and control.